page_title: Nancy (locomotive)
section_title: Preservation
hierarchical_section_title: Nancy (locomotive) / Preservation
caption_attribution_description: First steaming day for Nancy, at Alan Keef's workshop, with the Brexit Express headboard.
context_page_description: Nancy is a narrow gauge steam locomotive. It was built by Avonside Engine Company in 1908 for industrial service. It was in use until 1961, when it was acquired for preservation. After many years of effort and long storage, it was returned to working order in April 2019, and was then moved to its current owners, the Cavan and Leitrim Railway in Ireland.
context_section_description: Nancy was acquired in 1961 by a group in Watnall, Nottinghamshire with a view to preservation. In 1972, the loco was sold to Lord O’Neill for his Shane's Castle Railway in County Antrim. 
  Nancy was bought by the Cavan & Leitrim Railway in 1997, still in unrestored condition. In 1999, the locomotive was moved to Alan Keef in England for restoration to working order. Although work began there, it came to a halt owing to a downturn in the Irish economy and the loco was then stored for a number of years. The work took twenty years to complete, and Nancy steamed for the first time on 23 March 2019. The chance of Brexit gave increased impetus to this work, as shipping the locomotive back to Ireland from an England which had by-then left the EU gave a risk of attracting import duties or VAT. The locomotive was shipped back to Ireland, and was run on the restored Cavan and Leitrim Railway in April 2019.
caption: Nancy on the first steaming day, at Alan Keef's workshop
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